Great time to remind everyone that Sean Penn beat Madonna with a baseball bat, broke into her house, tied her to a chair and beat her for hours, left to buy booze, came back & beat her some more and she even filed a police report & he was charged but he made her drop the charges
this is why internet true crime people scare the shit out of me.
making serial killer merch and babygirlifying charles manson like that’s sick and twisted.
pennywise and ghostface and michael myers are RIGHT THERE and yet people still feel the need to stan real monsters.
Mugshot of John Wojtowicz, who unsuccessfully tried to rob a bank in 1972 to pay for his wife Eden's gender reassignment surgery. Apparently, Wojtowicz had based his plans on the movie, "The Godfather" (1972), which he had watched earlier that day.
2,000 onlookers, FBI, roof-top snipers, TV crew, and police all gathered at the Chase Manhattan bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn on a hot summer night. Wojtowicz held 7 hostages for 14 hours during which time he demanded food for the hostages, paid the pizza delivery boy wads of cash, threw money at the outside onlookers, shot through the bank's exit rear door (fearing the police would storm it), and accidentally fired a shot after dropping his rifle on the floor. In the end, his robbery attempt failed, and he was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison, of which he served five.
Wojtowicz's story was later turned into a movie called "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975), starring Al Pacino and John Cazale, both of whom, interestingly enough, had starred in "The Godfather." For the rights to his story, Wojtowicz was paid $7,500 and 1% of the movie's net profits, which he gave to Eden.
After her operation, Eden married someone else before dying of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1987. Wojtowicz attended her funeral and delivered a eulogy.
The issue of respectability in dress, and what constitutes "proper" attire in public, has raged for as long as people have worn clothes. People who take this position fail to recognize that their own clothes were once the "yoga pants" of their day. I will run through examples 🧵
55 years ago today was the My Lai massacre, which was the mass murder of hundreds of unarmed civilians in South Vietnam by US forces. Women and children were gang-raped before being mutilated. It was initially reported by the US military as a "day-long battle" against Communists.
“oh so you want -your- tax dollars to pay for free school lunches?” literally yes. please take whatever is necessary to keep kids from going hungry. how the fuck is this controversial.
I narrated this book. And I’m aware that the OP is performative garbage mean to incite anger/engagement. Still, there’s nothing in this book controversial or divisive. It is just a coming-of-age romance. What a strange & horrible timeline where bigots burn books for fear of love.
@JonMatteson@william_branner The fact that in the Obi Wan show Obi Wan comes out after being submerged in water and isn't even damp has angered me for months. MONTHS.
Not to be rude to the atomic scientists but if the clock started near midnight and can freeze for any amount of time and moves both backwards and forwards by irregular intervals why did they think it was helpful to model it after a clock
Sick kids with strep can’t get amoxicillin because capitalism exists to enrich the rich, not save human lives. A rationally planned healthcare system designed to preserve human health would not have critical shortages while bored billionaires get plastic surgery.
I went almost 3 years into this thing and just tested positive for COVID at 36 weeks pregnant on my first day of maternity leave. This feels like a cruel and unusual joke.